Following on from the rumours last week that Clement Grenier's protracted move to Newcastle United was about to come to a dramatic halt with the player becoming the Magpies' seventh new signing of the season, Twitter has just burst to life with more news concerning the talented Frenchman. Thanks to a Frenchman with a Twitter account, the NUFC hashtag thread has lit up with news that Grenier - who has been made available by his club Lyon for £7.5m - is currently on a flight winging its way into Newcastle airport from the south coast. Exciting stuff, if you don't look too hard at the source (again.) https://twitter.com/ZenonZadkine/status/494188758330531841 Knowing full well that Newcastle fans will hungrily gobble up ANY transfer rumour, regardless of the player or the source, Twitter invariably has a lot of silliness at this time of year, and it pays to pay attention to the details. If this rumour is to be believed you really have to ignore a couple of fairly major issues; first, there were indeed a number of flights connecting the two places in a round about way, but all were subject to at least one stop over, which makes the semantics of the tweet iffy at best. Why would anyone refer to one leg of their journey as the whole trip? And the timing on the tweet doesn't really correlate with any flights landing. Okay, so maybe he's just a quirky Frenchman, and we can forgive him his idiosyncratic terminology and his casual delay after landing, but there's something a bit fishy about the fact that he's called @ZenonZadkine - otherwise known as the Pro Evo name for Zinedine Zidane when Konami didn't have the rights to player names. And he made no mention in his highly populated Twitter feed of even getting a flight to Newcastle, when just 9 hours previous to the Tweet in question he was tweeting merrily in his usual manner. Oh and two hours before it, he sent a tweet reply to a follower claiming he hadn't moved from in front of his computer since Friday at 7pm. So maybe take these rumours - as all attached to the club, with a dump-truck full of salt.
